Nice quote

I haven't updated in a while, not that anyone would notice or anything. I'll be posting something nice, probably during the thanksgiving break, but for now, here's a lovely quote that was sent my way recently.

Carlin on the Planet:

We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now.

On Climate Change

Here are the facts:

Update

Well, it's been some time since my last post, so I'm beginning to feel guilty about not having written. I don't know why, though, as I'm pretty much the only person reading this thing.

Getting Established

Well, I've reached the one week mark, and I have one very important revelation. My life is reading. At any given moment now, I have a dozen or more papers waiting to be read. This is not hyperbole. This is a fact.

First Day of Classes

For me, as with many graduate students, it seems that the official start of classes doesn't have too much meaning. I'm only taking one class and a seminar this fall, so I'll take this bit of free time to talk a little bit about why I've decided to write down my thoughts.

And so it begins...

I've described the beginning of this Ph.D. program to many as a "new chapter" of my life, so to start reading these posts, then, would be rather like jumping midway into a book if I didn't have some sort of an introduction...